Coordinated Management of Meaning
The Coordinated Management of Meaning theory is how people in conversation construct realities of their own. Language and information shared during the conversation with the other person shapes our own social environment, which we then understand as reality (ohiou.edu).
This theory was developed by W. Barnett Pearce and Vernon Cronen.
It is said that there are three main components of this theory which are:
1. Coherence- we understand what is being communicated
2. Coordination- how we associate our lives with others
3. Mystery- an unpredictable event or ending that we reach from the conversation we have in our social context (ohiou.edu).
Click here to view an example of how a group's language and conversation can lead them to their own kind of reality.
